Like countless celebs and ordinary lesbians, Candy McCullough and Sharon Duchesneau had no trouble walking into a fertility clinic and conceiving a baby with the sperm of a friend.

As laid out in vomit-inducing detail by The Washington Post, Gauvin, born last November, does not live up entirely to his mothers' exacting specifications.

Mommies Duchesneau and McCullough have another worry: What if scientists locate the deafness gene, and no more deaf children are born?